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UNTITLED (by Gerry Hamill)

‘If you’re aristocratic,’ said Nietzsche,

‘It’s thumbs up, you’re OK. Pleased to mietzsche.

If you’re working class bores,

It’s thumbs down and up yours!

If you don’t know your place, then I’ll tietzsche.’

 

 

 

 

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from SUMMER WITH MONIKA (by Roger McGough)

away from you

i feel a great emptiness

a gnawing loneliness

with you

i get that reassuring feeling

of wanting to escape

 

 

 

 

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THEIR SEX LIFE  (by A. R. Ammons   1926-2001)

 

 

 

 

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TO SOMEONE WHO INSISTED I LOOK UP SOMEONE (by X.J. Kennedy   1929- )

I rang them up while touring Timbuctoo,

Those bosom chums to whom you’re known as ‘Who? ‘

 

 

 

 

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